11-letter words containing i, r, e, m, o
- microrelief — surface features of the earth of small dimensions, commonly less than 50 feet (15 meters).
- microscopes — Plural form of microscope.
- microsecond — a unit of time equal to one millionth of a second. Symbol: μsec.
- microseisms — Plural form of microseism.
- microsensor — a miniature electronic device used to detect changes in the environment.
- microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
- microspores — Plural form of microspore.
- microstress — a stress in the microstructure of a metal, as one caused by the distortion of space lattices.
- microsystem — A microscopic system, especially a system using microscopic electromechanical components.
- microtremor — microearthquake.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- microvessel — (medicine) A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.
- microwriter — a small device with six keys for creating text that can be printed or displayed on a visual display unit
- middle-born — neither first nor last in order of birth, especially second in a family of three children.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
- milk powder — dry milk.
- mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
- millionaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- mimographer — a writer of mimes
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
- minor order — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
- minor piece — a bishop or knight.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- minoritaire — a member of a minority in a political party
- minoritised — Simple past tense and past participle of minoritise.
- mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
- mirror site — (networking) An archive site or website which keeps a copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them more quickly available and to reduce the load on the source site. It is generally best to use the mirror that is physically closest to you as this will usually give the fastest download. Such mirroring is usually done for specific whole directories or files on a specific remote server as opposed to a cache or proxy server which keeps copies of everything that is requested via it. For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the GNU archive at gnu.org.
- mirrorscope — (dated) A slide projector.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misericorde — (Middle English) an act of clemency; pity, mercy.
- misericords — Plural form of misericord.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- misgoverned — Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern.
- misinformed — to give false or misleading information to.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- misordering — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- misorganize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.